The Little Super
The Century Magazine cover March 1908 The Little Super By Frank L. Packard From The Century Magazine , March 1908, LXXV . Digitized November 2018 by Doug Frizzle for Stillwoods.Blogspot.Ca MACLEOD backed the big compound mogul down past the string of dark-green coaches that he had pulled for a hundred and fifty miles, took the table with a slight jolt, and came to a stop in the roundhouse. As he swung himself from the cab, Healy, the turner, came up to him. “He’s a great lad, that av yours,” Healy began, with a shake of his head— “a great lad; but mind ye this, Jimmy MacLeod, there’ll be trouble for me an’ you an’ him an’ the whole av us, if you don’t watch him.” “What’s the matter this time, John?” “Matter,” said Healy, ruefully; “there’s matter enough. The little cuss come blame near running 429 into the pit a while back, so he did.” “Where is he now?” MacLeod asked, with a grin. “Devil a bit I know. I chased him out, an’ he started for over by the shops. An...